{"id":34969,"date":"2020-10-14T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=34969"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:29:04","slug":"fiu-business-ranked-no-1-in-the-world-for-real-estate-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2020\/10\/fiu-business-ranked-no-1-in-the-world-for-real-estate-research\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU Business ranked No. 1 in the world for real estate research."},"content":{"rendered":"
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FIU Business<\/a>\u00a0has been ranked No. 1 globally for real estate research productivity by the\u00a0Journal of Real Estate Literature<\/em>. It is the first time that FIU Business has been ranked first in the world, tying with the well-known National University of Singapore, and the fifth consecutive year it has occupied one of the top two spots in the U.S.<\/p>\n \u201cThis puts FIU Business on center stage with National University of Singapore, which is consistently ranked in the Top 20 and is the best in Asia-Pacific region,\u201d said FIU Business Dean Joanne Li. \u201cWe are honored and humbled to be recognized with NUS.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2020 Real Estate Academic Leadership (REAL) rankings highlight faculty and institutions demonstrating achievement in intellectual contributions to the field of real estate research from 2016 to 2020.<\/p>\n \u201cThese No.1 rankings demonstrate the significance of the cutting-edge research — relevant to academics as well as real estate practitioners — conducted by our Hollo School of Real Estate faculty,\u201d said FIU President Mark Rosenberg.<\/p>\n Institutions and professors are ranked based on the number of publications in the top three peer-reviewed real estate journals \u2013 the\u00a0Journal of Real Estate Economics<\/em>, the\u00a0Journal of Real Estate Research<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.\u00a0<\/em>During that period, FIU\u2019s real estate faculty had 41 contributions.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no doubt that top research schools from all over the world now view FIU Business very differently from the way they viewed us just a decade ago,\u201d said Eli Beracha<\/a>, director of the Hollo School of Real Estate. \u201cWe are playing in the major leagues and we are winning.\u201d<\/p>\n Three Hollo School professors were ranked in the Top 5 globally of the REAL Author Rankings.<\/p>\n William Hardin III<\/a>, associate dean of FIU\u2019s Chapman Graduate School and former director of the Hollo School, who published 12 articles in the academic journals, was ranked No. 2. Professors\u00a0Zhenguo Lin<\/a>\u00a0and Beracha, with 10 articles each, were tied at No. 3.<\/p>\n